A Tribute to Doug Moe brought out a who’s who in professional basketball and everyone, it seemed, had a “good one” to tell about the honoree. Some of the stories were revealing, others touching. And one hit the nail on the head.

It came from Moe’s friend of 40-plus years, Larry Brown, former Nuggets head coach now leading the Charlotte Bobcats, and put Moe’s sartorial style into perspective.

Moe’s aversion to, shall we say, a tailored fashion image, isn’t something he adopted on a whim. It dates back to when Moe and Brown first became coaches in Carolina, and one of the team sponsors offered them a generous discount on their clothing purchases. Brown, known as a fashionista, said he went crazy picking out ties, slacks, jackets and shirts while his buddy picked out one brown suit and one blue suit. “He said he could wear the blue jacket with the brown slacks, and vice versa, so he really had purchased four outfits and that’s all he wanted,” Brown recalled.